SPOILER ALERT! This put up accommodates particulars from Wednesday’s episode of The Masked Singer, together with the identification of Lovebird.
After a rousing rendition of “All That You Are” by the GooGoo Dolls on Transformers evening, Lovebird was the primary to be despatched house throughout a double elimination on The Masked Singer.
Even the judges agreed that Lovebird was exuding extra confidence this week, however sadly that wasn’t sufficient to maintain him off the chopping block. Jenny McCarthy has one other win underneath her belt after appropriately guessing that the singer behind the masks was none aside from Colton Underwood.
“I had all the time wished I knew I wished to attempt to present it in some unspecified time in the future and when earlier affords got here in, it simply wasn’t the best time in my life,” the previous Bachelor instructed Deadline of competing on the present. “When this season got here up, I used to be like, ‘That is the season I say, sure.’ It’s one thing that I by no means thought that I might need to say sure to or be snug doing, however it was the expertise of a lifetime and one thing I used to be so glad and grateful for.”
And since McCarthy appears to have a sixth sense for actuality TV stars on The Masked Singer, Underwood wasn’t stunned in any respect that she was in a position to guess his identification.
“It was to be anticipated at that time,” he defined. “I knew she had watched my season. I knew she was conversant in me. She had learn my ebook. So I used to be like, ‘Oh, she is gonna have this discovered.’”
Audiences who’ve been following Underwood since his actuality TV journey started on The Bachelorette will know that it’s been a rocky path. After vying for Becca Kufrin on Season 8, Underwood rapidly went on to Bachelor in Paradise, after which he turned The Bachelor for Season 23.
Shortly after his relationship from The Bachelor ended, he confronted allegations of stalking that have been finally dropped. In 2021, Underwood got here out as homosexual, and his popping out journey method documented within the Netflix sequence Coming Out Colton. He’s now married to husband Jordan C. Brown.
Trying again on that point in his life now, Underwood mentioned: “Lots of people neglect when these individuals go on a present like The Bachelor, they’re of their mid-20s. For me, particularly, I used to be popping out of soccer. I didn’t have lots of emotional maturity, and I’m rapidly navigating a life in entrance of cameras…clearly I used to be nonetheless working by lots of disgrace and figuring my sexuality out.”
He added that whereas he “was ready that I ought to have by no means been in,” he’s happy with the best way issues turned out.
“I’m happy with serving to contribute to our group and having individuals really feel represented as a result of there’s lots of people like me which can be struggling, which can be hiding, which have a lot disgrace round their sexuality, he continued. “I really feel like I needed to undergo what I went by to talk for individuals inside our group that felt equally to what I used to be feeling.”
Clearly, Underwood’s Lovebird costume was a nod to his courting present days, however he additionally thinks it represents the “self acceptance that I’ve skilled in the previous few years.”
“Lovebird spoke to me superbly,” he mentioned.
